Principal Technical Program Manager

Microsoft Quantum is dedicated to solving some of the world’s intractable problems and forever altering our economic, industrial, academic, and societal landscape. In just hours or days, a quantum computer will solve some complex problems that would otherwise take today’s computers billions of years! This has massive implications for sustainability, energy, environmental systems, smart materials, and more. We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager - Quantum. Microsoft is working to build a scalable quantum machine to empower people and organizations with this incredible technology stack. For more information about our team, visit https://quantum.microsoft.com/.   

As a Principal Technical Program Manager, you will help productize quantum solutions. You will be expected to collaborate cross-functionally, working across hardware and software engineering and design, quantum scientists, and leadership to bring quantum solutions to market for commercial customers – and will successfully guide solutions through key project milestones. You will be responsible for developing our product story for audiences from executive stakeholders to customers, using a balance of story-telling skills and product development expertise to help increase the impact of the team. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.  

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. 

Travel: As needed to Microsoft site and customer locations.  <25% 

Responsibilities

• Deliver quantum solutions: Drive cross-functional collaboration to accelerate delivering quantum solutions to customers.  

• Develop product stories: Develop compelling product stories and presentations for leadership discussions and customer engagements. 

• Execution: Ability to translate the strategic vision into discrete execution steps across engineering and business teams, collaborate with other PM leaders, engineering leaders, and peers across the Quantum team to establish a successful rhythm of continuous execution.   

• Data Driven: Skilled at using data to draw insights, answer hard questions, make decisions, and guide actions.   

• Communication: Able to conduct insightful conversations with  business and technical decision makers inside and outside Microsoft. Communicate complex ideas to others in a clear, effective, and motivating manner. You are also a skilled negotiator, with the ability to find shared value working with internal stakeholders, corporate partners, and customers.   

• Collaboration: Incredicble collaborator, able to work effectively across broad teams and influence stakeholders of all levels and of all disciplines across Micr